Immigrant Bilingualism in Spain: An Asset or a Liability?
| Autor: | Maria Medvedeva, Alejandro Portes |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
Matching (statistics) media_common.quotation_subject First language 05 social sciences Immigration Liability Ethnic group 050301 education 06 humanities and the arts Educational attainment Article Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) 0602 languages and literature Asset (economics) Psychology 0503 education Neuroscience of multilingualism Social psychology Demography media_common |
| Popis: | This study contributes to the ongoing debate about bilingual advantage and examines whether bilingual immigrant youths fare better, as well as, or worse academically than the matching group of monolinguals. Using data from Spain, where close to half of immigrants speak Spanish as their native language, we found no evidence of costs of bilingualism: bilingual youths did benefit from their linguistic skills. Their advantage, however, manifested itself not uniformly across discrete outcomes, but in a direct trajectory toward higher educational attainment. Bilingualism neutralized the possible negative effect of ethnic origins and extended the positive effect of high parental ambition. Implications for theory and practice are discussed. |
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